(Reservation will be made for candidates belonging to Scheduled Castes. Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Physically Disabled Categories in respect of vacancies as may be fixed by the Government.)

1. Introduction Meaning, scope and significance of Public Administration; Wilson's vision of Public Administration; Evolution of the discipline and its present status; New Public Administration; Public Choice approach; Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation; Good Governance: concept and application; New Public Management.

5. Accountability and controlConcepts of accountability and control; Legislative, Executive and Judicial control over administration; Citizen and Administration; Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations; Civil society; Citizen's Charters; Right to Information; Social audit.

7. Comparative Public AdministrationHistorical and sociological factors affecting administrative systems; Administration and politics in different countries; Current status of Comparative Public Administration; Ecology and administration; Riggsian models and their critique.

8. Development DynamicsConcept of development; Changing profile of development administration; 'Anti-development thesis'; Bureaucracy and development; Strong state versus the market debate; Impact of liberalisation on administration in developing countries; Women and development - the self-help group movement.

10. Public PolicyModels of policy-making and their critique; Processes of conceptualisation, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review and their limitations; State theories and public policy formulation.

1. Evolution of Indian AdministrationKautilya's Arthashastra; Mughal administration; Legacy of British rule in politics and administration - Indianization of public services, revenue administration, district administration, local self-government.

2. Philosophical and Constitutional framework of governmentSalient features and value premises; Constitutionalism; Political culture; Bureaucracy and democracy; Bureaucracy and development.

3. Public Sector UndertakingsPublic sector in modern India; Forms of Public Sector Undertakings; Problems of autonomy, accountability and control; Impact of liberalization and privatization.

5. Plans and Priorities Machinery of planning; Role, composition and functions of the Planning Commission and the National Development Council; 'Indicative' planning; Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels; Constitutional Amendments (1992) and decentralized planning for economic development and social justice.

6. State Government and AdministrationUnion-State administrative, legislative and financial relations; Role of the Finance Commission; Governor; Chief Minister; Council of Ministers; Chief Secretary; State Secretariat; Directorates.

7. District Administration since IndependenceChanging role of the Collector; Union-state-local relations; Imperatives of development management and law and order administration; District administration and democratic decentralization.

9. Financial Management Budget as a political instrument; Parliamentary control of public expenditure; Role of finance ministry in monetary and fiscal area; Accounting techniques; Audit; Role of Controller General of Accounts and Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

12. Urban Local Government Municipal governance: main features, structures, finance and problem areas; 74th Constitutional Amendment; Global-local debate; New localism; Development dynamics, politics and administration with special reference to city management.

13. Law and Order Administration British legacy; National Police Commission; Investigative agencies; Role of central and state agencies including paramilitary forces in maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency and terrorism; Criminalisation of politics and administration; Police-public relations; Reforms in Police.

2. ClimatologyTemperature and pressure belts of the world; Heat budget of the earth; Atmospheric circulation; atmospheric stability and instability. Planetary and local winds; Monsoons and jet streams; Air masses and fronto genesis, Temperate and tropical cyclones; Types and distribution of precipitation; Weather and Climate; Koppen's, Thornthwaite's and Trewartha's classification of world climates; Hydrological cycle; Global climatic change and role and response of man in climatic changes, Applied climatology and Urban climate.

3. OceanographyBottom topography of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans; Temperature and salinity of the oceans; Heat and salt budgets, Ocean deposits; Waves, currents and tides; Marine resources: biotic, mineral and energy resources; Coral reefs, coral bleaching; sea-level changes; law of the sea and marine pollution.

2. Economic GeographyWorld economic development: measurement and problems; World resources and their distribution; Energy crisis; the limits to growth; World agriculture: typology of agricultural regions; agricultural inputs and productivity; Food and nutrition problems; Food security; famine: causes, effects and remedies; World industries: locational patterns and problems; patterns of world trade.

3. Population and Settlement GeographyGrowth and distribution of world population; demographic attributes; Causes and consequences of migration; concepts of over-under-and optimum population; Population theories, world population problems and policies, Social well-being and quality of life; Population as social capital.Types and patterns of rural settlements; Environmental issues in rural settlements; Hierarchy of urban settlements; Urban morphology: Concepts of primate city and rank-size rule; Functional classification of towns; Sphere of urban influence; Rural - urban fringe; Satellite towns; Problems and remedies of urbanization; Sustainable development of cities.

9. Political AspectsGeographical basis of Indian federalism; State reorganisation; Emergence of new states; Regional consciousness and inter state issues; international boundary of India and related issues; Cross borderterrorism; India's role in world affairs; Geopolitics of South Asia and Indian Ocean realm.

6.Works and Economic Life(a) Social organization of work in different types of society- slave society, feudal society, industrial /capitalist society.(b) Formal and informal organization of work(c) Labour and society.

10.Social Change in Modern Society(a) Sociological theories of social change.(b) Development and dependency.(c) Agents of social change.(d) Education and social change.(e) Science, technology and social change.

(ii) Impact of colonial rule on Indian society(a) Social background of Indian nationalism. (b) Modernization of Indian tradition.(c) Protests and movements during the colonial period.(d) Social reforms

B. Social Structure

(i) Rural and Agrarian Social Structure(a) The idea of Indian village and village studies-(b) Agrarian social structure - evolution of land tenure system, land reforms.

(v) Systems of Kinship in India(a) Lineage and descent in India.(b) Types of kinship systems.(c) Family and marriage in India.(d) Household dimensions of the family.(e) Patriarchy, entitlements and sexual division of labour.

4. Megalithic CulturesDistribution of pastoral and farming cultures outside the Indus, Development of community life, Settlements, Development of agriculture, Crafts, Pottery, and Iron industry.

5. Aryans and Vedic PeriodExpansions of Aryans in India.Vedic Period: Religious and philosophic literature; Transformation from Rig Vedic period to the later Vedic period; Political, social and economical life; Significance of the Vedic Age; Evolution of Monarchy and Varna system.

6. Period of MahajanapadasFormation of States (Mahajanapada): Republics and monarchies; Rise of urban centres; Trade routes; Economic growth; Introduction of coinage; Spread of Jainism and Buddhism; Rise of Magadha and Nandas. Iranian and Macedonian invasions and their impact.

9. Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South IndiaKharavela, The Satavahanas, Tamil States of the Sangam Age; Administration, economy, land grants, coinage, trade guilds and urban centres; Buddhist centres; Sangam literature and culture; Art and architecture.

10. Guptas, Vakatakas and VardhanasPolity and administration, Economic conditions, Coinage of the Guptas, Land grants, Decline of urban centres, Indian feudalism, Caste system, Position of women, Education and educational institutions; Nalanda, Vikramshila and Vallabhi, Literature, scientific literature, art and architecture.

12. Themes in Early Indian Cultural History:Languages and texts, major stages in the evolution of art and architecture, major philosophical thinkers and schools, ideas in Science and Mathematics.

13. Early Medieval India, 750-1200* Polity: Major political developments in Northern India and the Peninsula, origin and the rise of Rajputs* The Cholas: administration, village economy and society* Indian Feudalism* Agrarian economy and urban settlements* Trade and commerce* Society: the status of the Brahman and the new social order* Condition of women* Indian science and technology

15. The Thirteenth Century* Establishment of the Delhi Sultanate: The Ghurian invasions - factors behind Ghurian success* Economic, social and cultural consequences* Foundation of Delhi Sultanate and early Turkish Sultans* Consolidation: The rule of Iltutmish and Balban

20. Akbar* Conquests and consolidation of the Empire* Establishment of Jagir and Mansab systems* Rajput policy* Evolution of religious and social outlook, theory of Sulh-i-kul and religious policy* Court patronage of art and technology

21. Mughal Empire in the Seventeenth Century* Major administrative policies of Jahangir, Shahjahan and Aurangzeb* The Empire and the Zamindars* Religious policies of Jahangir, Shahjahan and Aurangzeb* Nature of the Mughal State* Late Seventeenth century crisis and the revolts* The Ahom Kingdom* Shivaji and the early Maratha Kingdom.

22. Economy and Society in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries* Population, agricultural production, craft production* Towns, commerce with Europe through Dutch, English and French companies : a trade revolution* Indian mercantile classes, banking, insurance and credit systems* Condition of peasants, condition of women* Evolution of the Sikh community and the Khalsa Panth

24. The Eighteenth Century* Factors for the decline of the Mughal Empire* The regional principalities: Nizam's Deccan, Bengal, Awadh* Maratha ascendancy under the Peshwas* The Maratha fiscal and financial system* Emergence of Afghan Power, Battle of Panipat:1761* State of politics, culture and economy on the eve of the British conquest

PAPER - II

1. European Penetration into IndiaThe Early European Settlements; The Portuguese and the Dutch; The English and the French East India Companies; Their struggle for supremacy; Carnatic Wars; Bengal -The conflict between the English and the Nawabs of Bengal; Siraj and the English; The Battle of Plassey; Significance of Plassey.

2. British Expansion in IndiaBengal - Mir Jafar and Mir Kasim; The Battle of Buxar; Mysore; The Marathas; The three Anglo-Maratha Wars; The Punjab.

3. Early Structure of the British RajThe early administrative structure; From diarchy to direct control; The Regulating Act (1773); The Pitt's India Act (1784); The Charter Act (1833); The voice of free trade and the changing character of British colonial rule; The English utilitarian and India.

4. Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule(a) Land revenue settlements in British India; The Permanent Settlement; Ryotwari Settlement; Mahalwari Settlement; Economic impact of the revenue arrangements; Commercialization of agriculture; Rise of landless agrarian labourers; Impoverishment of the rural society.(b) Dislocation of traditional trade and commerce; De-industrialisation; Decline of traditional crafts; Drain of wealth; Economic transformation of India; Railroad and communication network including telegraph and postal services; Famine and poverty in the rural interior; European business enterprise and its limitations.

5. Social and Cultural DevelopmentsThe state of indigenous education, its dislocation; Orientalist-Anglicist controversy, The introduction of western education in India; The rise of press, literature and public opinion; The rise of modern vernacular literature; Progress of science; Christian missionary activities in India.

6. Social and Religious Reform movements in Bengal and Other AreasRam Mohan Roy, The Brahmo Movement; Devendranath Tagore; Iswarchandra Vidyasagar; The Young Bengal Movement; Dayanada Saraswati; The social reform movements in India including Sati, widow remarriage, child marriage etc.; The contribution of Indian renaissance to the growth of modern India; Islamic revivalism - the Feraizi and Wahabi Movements.

7. Indian Response to British RulePeasant movements and tribal uprisings in the 18th and 19th centuries including the Rangpur Dhing (1783), the Kol Rebellion (1832), the Mopla Rebellion in Malabar (1841-1920), the Santal Hul (1855), Indigo Rebellion (1859-60), Deccan Uprising (1875) and the Munda Ulgulan (1899-1900); The Great Revolt of 1857 - Origin, character, causes of failure, the consequences; The shift in the character of peasant uprisings in the post-1857 period; the peasant movements of the 1920s and 1930s.

8. Factors leading to the birth of Indian Nationalism; Politics of Association; The Foundation of the Indian National Congress; The Safety-valve thesis relating to the birth of the Congress; Programme and objectives of Early Congress; the social composition of early Congress leadership; the Moderates and Extremists; The Partition of Bengal (1905); The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal; the economic and political aspects of Swadeshi Movement; The beginning of revolutionary extremism in India.

9. Rise of Gandhi; Character of Gandhian nationalism; Gandhi's popular appeal; Rowlatt Satyagraha; the Khilafat Movement; the Non-cooperation Movement; National politics from the end of the Non-cooperation movement to the beginning of the Civil Disobedience movement; the two phases of the Civil Disobedience Movement; Simon Commission; The Nehru Report; the Round Table Conferences; Nationalism and the Peasant Movements; Nationalism and Working class movements; Women and Indian youth and students in Indian politics (1885-1947); the election of 1937 and the formation of ministries; Cripps Mission; the Quit India Movement; the Wavell Plan; The CabinetMission.

10. Constitutional Developments in the Colonial India between 1858 and 1935

11. Other strands in the National MovementThe Revolutionaries: Bengal, the Punjab, Maharashtra, U.P, the Madras Presidency, Outside India. The Left; The Left within the Congress: Jawaharlal Nehru, Subhas Chandra Bose, the Congress Socialist Party; the Communist Party of India, other left parties.

12. Politics of Separatism; the Muslim League; the Hindu Mahasabha; Communalism and the politics of partition; Transfer of power; Independence.

13. Consolidation as a Nation; Nehru's Foreign Policy; India and her neighbours (1947-1964); The linguistic reorganisation of States (1935-1947); Regionalism and regional inequality; Integration of Princely States; Princes in electoral politics; the Question of National Language.

15. Economic development and political change; Land reforms; the politics of planning and rural reconstruction; Ecology and environmental policy in post - colonial India; Progress of science.

16. Enlightenment and Modern ideas(i) Major ideas of Enlightenment: Kant, Rousseau(ii) Spread of Enlightenment in the colonies(iii) Rise of socialist ideas (up to Marx); spread of Marxian Socialism.

17. Origins of Modern Politics(i) European States System.(ii) American Revolution and the Constitution.(iii) French revolution and aftermath, 1789-1815.(iv) American Civil War with reference to Abraham Lincoln and the abolition of slavery.(v) British Democratic Politics, 1815-1850; Parliamentary Reformers, Free Traders, Chartists.

19. Nation-State System(i) Rise of Nationalism in 19th century(ii) Nationalism: state-building in Germany and Italy(iii) Disintegration of Empires in the face of the emergence of nationalities across the world.

20. Imperialism and Colonialism(i) South and South-East Asia(ii) Latin America and South Africa(iii) Australia(iv) Imperialism and free trade: Rise of neo-imperialism.

21. Revolution and Counter-Revolution(i) 19th Century European revolutions(ii) The Russian Revolution of 1917-1921(iii) Fascist Counter-Revolution, Italy and Germany.(iv)The Chinese Revolution of 1949

22. World Wars(i) 1st and 2nd World Wars as Total Wars: Societal implications(ii) World War I: Causes and consequences(iii) World War II: Causes and consequence

23. The World after World War II(i) Emergence of two power blocs(ii) Emergence of Third World and non-alignment(iii) UNO and the global disputes.

26. Unification of Europe(i) Post War Foundations: NATO and European Community(ii) Consolidation and Expansion of European Community(iii) European Union.

27. Disintegration of Soviet Union and the Rise of the Unipolar World(i) Factors leading to the collapse of Soviet communism and the Soviet Union, 1985-1991(ii) Political Changes in Eastern Europe 1989-2001.(iii) End of the cold war and US ascendancy in the World as the lone superpower.